Premier David Makhura and Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba have met with the bereaved families of three firefighters who died when the Bank of Lisbon building caught fire in the Johannesburg CBD on Wednesday.

Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba says he will approach the Equality Court, in his personal capacity, to seek legal recourse against the Gupta brothers, Atul and Ajay, for their alleged racial slurs against black South Africans.